Sentry data source plugin with Grafana

The Sentry data source plugin allows you to query and visualize Sentry data within Grafana.

Requirements

The Sentry data source has the following requirements:

• Grafana user with a server or organization administration role; refer to Permissions.
• An active Sentry account
• In Sentry, The Admin, Manager, or Owner role is required to get an internal integration token

Known limitations

With the Grafana Sentry data source plugin, you are able to visualize issues, events or usage statistics within an organization. For more information, see Issues, Events and Org Stats.

Install the Sentry data source plugin

To install the Sentry data source plugin in your Grafana instance, refer to Installation.

Get an authentication token from Sentry

To configure the Sentry data source plugin within Grafana, get an internal integration token from Sentry:

1. Go to https://sentry.io.
2. Navigate to Organization Settings
3. Under Developer Settings select Custom Integrations.
4. Click Create New Integration and then select Internal Integration
5. Use a valid name such as Grafana.
6. Go to PERMISSIONS, provide Read permissions to the required resources such as "Project", "Issue and Event", and "Organization".
7. Click Save Changes then scroll down to TOKENS and click + New Token
8. Copy the token for the Sentry Auth Token field when configuring the data source within Grafana.

Note: In Sentry, The Admin, Manager, or Owner role is required to get an internal integration token

Configure the data source in Grafana

Add a data source by filling in the following fields:

Field name	Description
Sentry URL	Sentry URL to be used. If left blank, the default is https://sentry.io.
Sentry Org	Sentry Org slug. Typically this is in the URL, such as https://sentry.io/organizations/{organization_slug}/.
Sentry Auth Token	Sentry Auth token. You can generate this from https://sentry.io/settings/{organization_slug}/developer-settings/) using the steps specified in the previous section.

Configure the data source via provisioning

You can configure data sources to use Grafana’s provisioning system. For more information about how provisioning works, and all of the settings that you can set for data sources, see Provisioning Grafana.

Here is an example for provisioning this data source:

apiVersion: 1
datasources:
  - name: Sentry
    type: grafana-sentry-datasource
    access: proxy
    orgId: 1
    version: 1
    editable: false
    jsonData:
      url: https://sentry.io
      orgSlug: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
    secureJsonData:
      authToken: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Query the data source

The query editor allows you to query Sentry, get sentry issues, events and stats and display them in Grafana dashboard panels. You can choose one of the following query types, to get the relevant data.

Sentry issues

To get the list of Sentry issues, select Sentry Issues as the query type. Issues are filtered based on Grafana’s selected time range.

Field	Description
Query Type	Choose Issues as query type.
Projects	(optional) Select one or more projects to filter the results.
Environments	(optional) Select one or more environments to filter the results.
Query	(optional) Enter your sentry query to get the relevant results.
Sort By	(optional) Select the order of results you want to display.
Limit	(optional) Limit the number of results displayed.

Sentry events

To get the list of Sentry events, select Sentry Events as the query type. Events are filtered based on Grafana’s selected time range.

Field	Description
Query Type	Choose Events as query type.
Projects	(optional) Select one or more projects to filter the results.
Environments	(optional) Select one or more environments to filter the results.
Query	(optional) Enter your sentry query to get the relevant results. More on query syntax
Sort By	(optional) Select the order of results you want to display.
Limit	(optional) Limit the number of results displayed. Max limit - 100.

Sentry Org stats

To get the trend of Sentry Org stats, select Stats as the query type. Org stats are filtered based on Grafana’s selected time range.

Field	Description
Query Type	Choose Stats as query type.
Field	Select the field type you want to trend. Currently, you must choose either sum(quantity) or sum(times_seen).
Category Filter	Select the category you want to filter the results. You must to choose one the available option there.
Group By	(optional) Select one or more fields you want to group the results.
Projects	(optional) Select one or more projects to filter the results.
Outcome Filter	(optional) Select one of more outcomes to filter the results.
Reason Filter	(optional) Enter comma separated list of reasons you want to filter.

Templates and variables

In Grafana dashboards, you can use Sentry entities as dashboard variables. Sentry data source supports following variables:

Variable name	Description
Teams	Lists the Sentry teams. The team name is used as the display value, and team slug is used as as actual value.
Projects	Lists the Sentry projects. The project name is used as the display value, and each project ID is used as an actual value.
Environments	Lists the Sentry environments for the selected projects. If you do not select a project, all of the applicable environments are listed.

Annotations

Annotations give you the ability to overlay Sentry issues on graphs. In the annotations editor, you have to choose Issues for creating annotations from Sentry issues.

Get the most out of the plugin

• Add Annotations.
• Configure and use Templates and variables.
• Add Transformations.
• Set up alerting; refer to Alerts overview.